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Saturday Smile

Repost:  Quitting is Hard?  How About Dying?  The 3 Part Plan

Quitting is hard - there is no getting around that.  Can't sugar coat it as I know very few people who have skated through the process.  Good news is ....
1.  it gets better as you figure out other ways to cope without smoking........
2.  You start to feel better......  
3.  The smoke screen clears and you realize smoking gave you nothing..........
4.  Smoking is never an option in life.
Days build up and in time smoking becomes a distant memory - one that may still enter your head but is easily dismissed.  You discover that by sticking with the program and committing to the process.
Quitting may not always be easy - but it is doable.
KTQ
Cara
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Quitting is Hard? How About Dying? The 3 Part Plan.
From: allsfair
Date: 2014-01-08 13:56:45 
Message:
 So what's all the complaining about? You smoked for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and what, you thought the first 10 days was going to be easy? First 30? You're not going to get off that easy, and your inner addict (who is a liar and wants to kill you) doesn't want you escaping from the choke hold. Do you have what it takes? Of course you do!

You're not going through anything we all haven't gone though. You just have to decide whether you want to live or die - it's not too hard of a decision, at least it wasn't for me.

However, certain smoking death and costly misery in the meantime will always be refunded to you at the door as and when you leave. See ya...

I know, pretty harsh eh? But, unfortunately, those are the facts.

Here are some tips:

1. If you don't pick up and light up, even if your ass falls off, you won't smoke. You just have to go through whatever you go through physically until the drug leaves your system (3 days isn't that long - just suffer through it). If you are on NRT, you'll have to do this eventually....

2. Your inner addict is a liar and wants to kill you. The best is yet to come with this one as you move through the process and its always working, working on you. At the beginning, you are still in the stranglehold. That's why you are constantly thinking about smoking every minute. Before your addict had you in that chokehold and you were just mindlessly puffing away, killing yourself. Where was your mind? It gets better - again, you just have to suffer through it and you'll get to part 3.

3. Once you get over the physical part (chemical) and wriggling out of the chokehold you have to go about changing your mind BACK to that of a non-smoker, for whom smoking is never the answer to anything - smoking is never the result for a non-smoker because they don't' smoke (Imagine). You didn't come out of the womb with a pack of Marlboros asking the doc "got a light?" so you're just returning to your natural state (which way is being blocked by your inner addict who is a liar and wants to kill you).

Here's the thing, even with 8 hours without smoking, you'll never be closer to freedom than you are right now. Set down a program and stick to it - fight it out - flush the chemicals, wriggle out of the chokehold and set your mind free.

Just don't smoke no matter what else happens or comes up and eventually this will all be a bad memory, but a memory necessary to always preserve that quit. If you do #1 (don't smoke, even if your ass falls off) you will get to #2 and #3 and this all gets easier from there - once you're a non-smoker again, it's all just maintenance (just "not smoking," go figure).

This all takes time and effort - it's not easy and if you're not committed, I'm sorry to say, you won't make it.

Stop killing yourself - stop smoking - stay quit - change your mind - love yourself.

It's all worth it. You can and will make it.

Houston
Day 3396

Repost: Quitting is Hard? How About Dying? The 3 Part Plan

Quitting is hard - there is no getting around that. Can't sugar coat it as I know very few people who have skated through the process. Good news is....
1. it gets better as you figure out other ways to cope without smoking........
2. You start to feel better......
3. The smoke screen clears and you realize smoking gave you nothing..........
4. Smoking is never an option in life.
Days build up and in time smoking becomes a distant...#1 (don't smoke, even if your ass falls off) you will get to #2 and #3 and this all gets easier from there - once you're a non-smoker again, it's all just maintenance (just "not smoking," go figure).

This all takes time and effort - it's not easy and if you're not committed, I'm sorry to say, you won't make it.

Stop killing yourself - stop smoking - stay quit - change your mind - love yourself.

It's all worth it. You can and will make it.

Houston
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Good morning everybuddy!
Happy Saturday to you!!!!!!

Up and going for the day. I have a busy one as I am taking my car in for an oil change and check up before the big move. Just have t swap over the winter tires closer to the move date. Saying NO to smoking and keeping to my path along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand in friendship and support to the next winner joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a super Saturday!
Cara
D6982

4Y 0M
Life Saved
$103,683
Money Saved
188,514
Unsmoked

Good morning. 4:24am in east Tennessee. Having my first coffee before toddling off to the shower. Saying NOPE too. Not a snowballs chance in hell of smoking today.

The flooring story continues. It's looking nice but it's still not done. There's part of a hallway, laundry, one bath that has been stripped and one bath and closet to have old floor/carpet removed and new installed.

There's a certain company that is going to get blasted over this flooring fiasco. The review will be public and not... Show more

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Hey!! WaynenMary - thanks for starting the bonfire tonight - I have 8280 coffin nails for the flames.

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TGIF, thanks for lighting the Bonfire WaynenMary! I have a nice round 121,000 unsmoked to dispose of tonight. Have another fabulous smoke free evening everyone!

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I'm throwing my 3,360 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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I'm throwing my 54,580 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire! ODAAT Baby!

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I'm throwing my 133,060 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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Only by Gods grace I'm throwing my 261,150 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire! Thank you WaynenMary for hosting Friday night bonfire

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Friday April 25 Self Serve Bonfire

Welcome to the BONFIRE on this beautiful Friday Evening! It’s a self-serve bonfire so carefully throw your unsmoked nasties into the bonfire and head over to check out the many different diversions available on NOPE Island! We encourage you to toss any worries or problems you are experiencing tonight into the fire as well! 🔥 Everyone is welcome at the Bonfire! Whether you have 2, 20, 200, 20,000 or 200,000 stinkeroos, we want your unsmokeds to make this fire blaze high. We especially welcome...

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Thought for Today

Friday Smile

Repost:  Only On Day One

Excellent repost!
KTQ
Cara
D6980

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A repost from TypsyMcStagger/Jani:
From tolly on 8/16/2006 6:34:54 PM
Repost, Author Unknown

ONLY ON DAY ONE

So many times people say that they're on day one and it's an understated, quiet, anti-climatic humble statement. They seem almost apologetic to the crowd. They are only on day one, how insignificant.

Well, let me tell you something ... Day one is the most important day of the entire quit! Without Day One, there is no quit!

It's absolutely the MOST important day! And it should be shouted from the rooftops! It should be heralded with trumpets blaring! Day One is cause for greater celebration than Day 100!

Oh, Day 100 is wonderful. Success is stamped all over Day 100, but without Day One, there is no Day 100. Without Day One there is nothing.

So here is to Day One and all those who were brave enough to enter it and embrace it and allow it to be their reality. Congratulations to you for being willing to enter Hell Week!

I see Hell Week as a challenging, long, suffering, miserable week and here these people are ... Ready - Willing - And Able to walk up to it and say "I'm here!"

Without that, you have no quit. Without that willingness to walk up to Hell Week and offer yourself like some sacrificial lamb on a rock slab, you have nothing. You are the bravest of any day, on Day One! You are the most challenged on Day One. That is the hardest day of the entire quit. Because that is the day that you took your whole world and did the impossible. You turned it around 180 degrees! You turned night into day. You made the sun into the moon. You took everything that seemed normal and right and tossed it into the wind and said "give me abnormal and wrong!"

Ever since Day One, I have been inviting abnormal and wrong into my life. And I have never felt so alive in all of my days on this earth.

If I could do it all over again, I would jump into Day One screaming and cheering with banners and ribbons flowing from my arms. And I would wear a big hat that proudly stated "DAY ONE" on it! Because something happened that I never bargained for. Facing the fear and allowing Day One to enter my life was the first of many more wonderful challenges. And it was as if somebody handed me a key (a master key!) and said "Here, this opens more doors, discover yourself!"

Welcome to Hell. It is the most wonderful place! Because past this lies Freedom. I'd walk this walk 100 more times if I had to. It's that beautiful.

Repost: Only On Day One

Excellent repost!
KTQ
Cara
D6980

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A repost from TypsyMcStagger/Jani:
From tolly on 8/16/2006 6:34:54 PM
Repost, Author Unknown

ONLY ON DAY ONE

So many times people say that they're on day one and it's an understated, quiet, anti-climatic humble statement. They seem almost apologetic to the crowd. They are only on day one, how... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Friday to you!!!!!!!

Up and going for the day today. Very happy it is Friday and another week bites the dust. I am making this a NO smoking day to celebrate Fri-yeah!!!! Keeping to my path along the Freedom Road kicking ash as I go. Who will join me today.
Have a good one
Cara
D6981

4Y 0M
Life Saved
$103,668
Money Saved
188,487
Unsmoked

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Good morning. At least I think it's a good morning. It s 5:37am. I have been up forever. It's going to be a long day today. So saying NOPE now.
The flooring project began yesterday. I have always said " never start a project without a plan". Well yesterday was the day it happened....no plan in place and the project went sideways from the git-go. First they did not show up until about 9:30am. Did not even have a map of the house. No idea of what they were looking at. First of problem hit right... Show more

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Hello there WaynenMary, thanks for starting the Bonfire! I'm dumping in 120,975 unsmokeds tonight. Another wonderful evening to be smoke free!

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I'm throwing my 133,040 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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